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Poems, Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams

By Walter Savage Landor: Edited with notes by Charles G. Crump

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[Love is like Echo in the land of Tell]

Love is like Echo in the land of Tell,
Who answers best the indweller of her bowers,

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Silent to other voices (idly loud
Or wildly violent) letting them arouse
Eagle or cavern'd brute, but never her.